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Date:      Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:37:19 -0400
From:      Charlie Root <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: qpopper for root
Message-ID:  <ejy7sphc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <44802415.2030907@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> (Robin Becker's message of "Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:42:13 %2B0100")
References:  <44800F1D.50100@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <44801448.50009@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk> <200606021328.31894.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> <44802415.2030907@chamonix.reportlab.co.uk>

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Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> writes:

> that's a good answer and will allow my despamming stuff to work on
> it. I was hoping to be able to clear the root mailbox as well. Is
> there an easy way to do that?

Procmail comes with a nice tool that can do that, called formail.  For
a one-time use, though, it's probably easier to just copy the mailbox
file somewhere  else and delete it.

>                               In practice if I'm not trying to clear
> roots mbox, can I not just forward mail with root's .forward file?

Sure, it will work.



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